St. Joseph Mercy brings in 150 Univ. of Toledo medical residents

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 | Source: Concentrate

An Ann Arbor institution is reaching beyond Michigan's borders to bring some of the best and brightest minds to the southeast corner of the state.

Saint Joseph Mercy Health System is setting up a residency program with the University of Toledo's College of Medicine. Those 150 residents (doctors in training) will be based mostly out of 10 programs in the health system's St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia.

This rounds out the available hospitals Saint Joseph Mercy has for residency programs. It already has programs set up with the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University at its other hospitals, including its main Ann Arbor campus.

"We already have residency programs at St. Joe's in Livingston, Ann Arbor and Oakland," says Lauren Stokes, spokeswoman for Saint Joseph Mercy Health System. "Residents have the opportunity to rotate throughout the Health System."

Which could mean more of the best and brightest young minds working, playing and living in the Ann Arbor area. These residents could be in areas such as obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, general surgery, emergency medicine, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, podiatry and dermatology. The residency program is expected to be in place by 2010.

Source: Lauren Stokes, spokeswoman for Saint Joseph Mercy Health System
Writer: Jon Zemke